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Board President, Alisha Eilers, on Daybreak’s 50th Birthday and Generational Change
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Board President, Alisha Eilers, on Daybreak’s 50th Birthday and Generational Change

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-01-23T12:34:58-05:00January 23rd, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

Daybreak's Board President, Alisha Eilers To kick off the celebration of our 50th birthday, we spoke with Alisha Eilers, our board president and a previous Daybreak client. To commemorate 50 years, we're featuring 50 voices of people Daybreak has touched since opening on January 19, 1975. We are still looking for more voices to feature, so if you or someone you know have been impacted by Daybreak, we'd love to hear from you! Please enjoy Alisha's story and thank you for being here with us! https://youtu.be/m7_L5A18k6c?si=VZEPxWZRT9FIIhc6 Hi Alisha! It is so great to talk to you about this. I am [...]

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Daybreak’s Clarissa Breard on Freedom of Growth
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Daybreak’s Clarissa Breard on Freedom of Growth

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-05-28T14:07:40-04:00May 29th, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I'd like to welcome Clarissa Breard, Daybreak intern. How did you choose Daybreak [for your internship] or how did you come to find us? We had four different site placements [through our program at the Fitz Center for Leadership at University of Dayton] that were set for us, and it was Daybreak, Homefull, Dayton Children's and Miami Valley Child Development Center. So, we had one of those options and it was ironic because I met with my director and asked, “Where do you see me? What’s your vision?” And he was said, “You're at Daybreak.” I said, "Okay. I don't know [...]

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Marcia Connors on Encouraging Young People
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Marcia Connors on Encouraging Young People

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-05-23T12:09:36-04:00May 23rd, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I would like to introduce Marcia Connors, Daybreak staff, who I have here today to talk to me on 50 Faces 50 Voices. I always like to start with how did you get connected with Daybreak? I got connected with Daybreak; I was doing a third career change. I was at Wright State, and I thought, well, social service. And I remember seeing something about Daybreak and so I thought, ‘well, let me go see if I can do a student teaching type thing.’ That was how I got to know a little bit about Daybreak and then I saw a [...]

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Travis Rindler on the Amazing Community around Daybreak
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Travis Rindler on the Amazing Community around Daybreak

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-05-15T17:18:50-04:00May 15th, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I would like to welcome Travis Rindler, Daybreak employee, to this segment of 50 Faces 50 Voices. So, Travis, how did you get connected with Daybreak? I started back in November of 2013. I was actually an employee at Goodwill, and they contracted with Daybreak through their employment program. And I, along with Sharmel Calbert, worked with our clients in both programs and I eventually got hired on at Daybreak full-time and have worked here ever since in some capacity. https://youtu.be/X1kzAeIE4yw Awesome! So, how have you seen Daybreak change from when you started in 2013 to today? Oh, in so [...]

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Karla Garrett Harshaw and A Stronger Dayton Community Starting with Our Youth
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Karla Garrett Harshaw and A Stronger Dayton Community Starting with Our Youth

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-05-07T12:08:35-04:00May 2nd, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I would like to start with how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? I think the first time I became familiar with Daybreak was while I was working in development at legal aid law firm’s advocates for basic legal equality and legal aid of Western Ohio. Both are nonprofit law firms that serve low income and disadvantaged people in civil cases. And it was either through the work that was done there or other community connections that I became aware of Daybreak. Since then, however, I've become even more familiar with the [...]

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Carolynn Carr on Daybreak Saving Lives
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Carolynn Carr on Daybreak Saving Lives

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-04-30T15:37:51-04:00May 1st, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I've got Carolyn Carr here with me. She's a past client of Daybreak and I always like to start with the moment of instability. So, what was the moment that brought you to Daybreak? Oh, that's a great question. So, I was 18 at the time. Me and my twin sister were in a difficult situation between my mom's boyfriend and also our mother. Basically, we were feeling safe in our home so my oldest sister who was a client here at Daybreak as well, she recommended us to come straight here. I felt I was safe here because where I [...]

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Melissa Aldridge on Daybreak as a Starting Place
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Melissa Aldridge on Daybreak as a Starting Place

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-04-23T14:59:56-04:00April 24th, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I have Melissa Aldridge here with me today and she is a past client of Daybreak and so I always like to start with the moment of instability. What was that moment that brought you to Daybreak? Well, I grew up in Dayton, OH, and that's an area that sometimes has a lot of reputations or people don't even know where it is when I talk to them. But one of the things that tends to come up is that there's definitely some challenges with the intersection of 70 and 75 and the addiction that kind of plagues a lot of [...]

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We Care Arts on Continuity of Community
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We Care Arts on Continuity of Community

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-03-26T11:27:38-04:00March 26th, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I have with me today Katie Neubert from We Care Arts as well as Rick Willits and Kelli Campbell. So my first question is how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? Thank you so much for talking with us. We love Daybreak and we are so proud of our partnership with the team over there and all the amazing work that they have been doing. We Care Arts is a 40-year-old organization. Our mission is focused on empowering healing through art and community. And since about 2019, because it was pre-COVID. We [...]

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Judge Wallace of Montgomery County Juvenile Court on Community Partnership
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Judge Wallace of Montgomery County Juvenile Court on Community Partnership

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-03-13T13:28:41-04:00March 13th, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos|

I have Judge Wallace with me who is from Montgomery County Juvenile Court. Thank you for being here. You're very welcome. I'm pleased to be here. https://youtu.be/HChSlEuhmJQ?si=SSXG0iUP4In4emoJ So, how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? Well, I began working in Montgomery County in 2001 as a prosecutor in the juvenile division. Through that role I learned about Daybreak, and it was often that we’d contact Daybreak for kids that had nowhere else to go—it wasn't appropriate for them to be detained but they couldn't go home. Sometimes there needed to be [...]

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Altar Lee on Adaptability and Accepting Help
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Altar Lee on Adaptability and Accepting Help

By Daybreak-Dayton|2025-03-06T11:19:21-05:00March 6th, 2025|50 Faces 50 Voices, Videos, Youth Stories|

I have with me Altar Lee who is a previous client and also been a featured speaker at our annual Champions for Youth event. Tell us what was the moment of instability that brought you to Daybreak? The moment of instability would probably be my mental health. When it started becoming clear because I am a person who has borderline personality disorder. I am diagnosed with it. I've had it since I was little. Been in therapy since I was little. But it became a big staple in my life at the age of 16 which caused a lot of turmoil [...]

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